Jane Eyre-inspired sisters

Kate Aurthur writes an extremely interesting article on TV couples that develop large amounts of unresolved sexual tension but never finally really get together until a few seasons have come and gone. Or if they do, it's only to split up and then get that much-beloved by TV-producers UST going again, as Ms Aurthur says "because this is prime time, however, it was also inevitable that the courtship would take ages. Television hates nothing more than a happy couple. Elaborate mating rituals and thwarted love seem to make better viewing than the comfortable routines of life à deux."

After providing several examples from several TV series, she finishes off her article concluding:

What to do? Most viewers still want the couple to end up together; we just don't want to watch them be together. You can see why the writers might resort to a temporary breakup—one that endures for about as long as the Gilmore Girls runs and then gets resolved by the series finale. If they do, I'll play along. The marriage plot remains a tried-and-true narrative thread, and in Victorian novels it never bothers me when a seemingly unworkable relationship is miraculously, happily tied up in the final pages. If these lengthy hindrances and postponements are simply the television equivalent, then I'm willing to believe Donna, Rachel, Carrie and every other Jane Eyre-inspired sister when she finally tells me—right at the end—"Reader, I married him."

She's right - a large part of Jane Eyre is devoted to the UST between Rochester and Jane. Ha! Charlotte was ahead of her time in that respect too, it seems :)

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